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Sports Contact us: Charlie Jaworski ijf Executive Sports Editor i 607-798-1191 1-800-365-0077 'i cjaworskipressconnects.com i til Press Sun-Bulletin pressconnects.com SECTION SUNDAY DECEMBER 7, 2003 SU players hope rout saves Pasqualoni's job Reyes' 5 TDs topple Notre Dame MfiJ KANSAS STATE STUNS OKLAHOMA: By JOHN KEKIS Associated Press SYRACUSE Walter Reyes wasn't about to lose that big grin after leading Syracuse to a season-ending victory over Notre Dame. Neither were his teammates or. his belea guered coach. "What a great win!" Reyes said Saturday after rush ing for 189 yards and five touchdowns t- fill 1 vc 1 L-- AssoeiateJ I'ress Syracuse to lead the 38 Orangemen to a M0TRE DAME lfvict-ust showed a lot of and heart. For the program, we wanted to come out here and show the nation that Syracuse football is still here." It was the first meeting between the teams in 40 years and the outcome was a bitter disappointment for the Irish (5-7).

Instead of extending their winning streak to four games, they finished with their third losing season in five years, something that had never happened in the storied history of the program. "We felt that this game could have been a good springboard into the offseason," coach Tyrone Willingham said. SEE SYRACUSE 5B THOMAS autBEKA Press Sun-Bulletin County Veterans Memorial Arena. The Penguins won the fight-filled game between the East Division rivals, 4-1 Dennis Bonvie of the Binghamton Senators, left, brawls with David Scud-eri of the Wilkes-BarreScranton Penguins Saturday night at the Broome Kansas State frustrated Oklahoma quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate Jason White to upset the Sooners, 35-7, in Saturday's Big 1 2 championship game. White was intercepted twice and was held without a touchdown for the first time -this season.

The loss still might not keep the Sooners out of the Sugar Bowl, where they could play either LSU or Southern Cal, both ners Saturday, for the national title. College Football 5B Pens fight past Senators Branch's late TD lifts Colgate over W. Illinois By SCOTT LAUBER I'rcss Smi-Bulk'tii) BrvCHAMTON With fewer than three minutes letton the clock here Saturday night, the clock was officially turned back. Wearing the brown, gold and white of the Broome their pro hockey ancestor in this town and the honored guests on "Throwback Night," and on -their way-ta-a 4-ir beating by he Penguins, the Binghamton Seria-tors resorted to "old-time hockey" By CRAIG MUDER Gannett News Service HAMILTON Dick Biddle grabbed hold, of the final football snapped at Saturday's playoff game and wouldn't let go. As Colgate's win streak grows, every game seems more special than in A brawl that featured both goaliesandstoppedplavfornearlv THOMAS HAKIiliRA I'rcss Sun-Bulletin.

Former Broome Dusters player Randy MacGregor is presented a replica Duster jersey by the Binghamton Senators' Dennis Bonvie prior to Saturday's game. Former Dusters players back in 'Hockey Heaven' the last to the Raiders' head coach. i "We'll put this in the trophy case if they'll let us," said Biddle after his team's 28-27 win Saturday over I-AA quarterfinal game. Colgate, which improved to 14-0 on the season and extended its Division I-best winning streak to 20 games, advances to play at Florida Atlantic, a 48-25 winner over Northern Arizona Saturday. "We have so much confidence in each other, we work so well as a team, that we know that we can play with anybody," said tight end John Frieser, a Maine-Endwell graduate.

"On our best day, we think that we can win any game." Quarterback Chris Brown helped ensure that happened Saturday. Brown completed 18 of 31 passes for 206 yards and two touchdowns. Brown's last completion was his most important a 24-yard strike to Luke; Graham that gave Colgate a first-; and-goal on the Leathernecks' 1 with: three minutes left in the game. "I Branch needed three carries tji get that yard, but his touchdow arftl SEE COLGATE 5B Penguins 4 Senators 1 The Dusters and the Hanson Brothers would've been proud. me, it wasn't that kind of game," Senators coach John Paddock said, "but the referee (Justin St.

Pierre) had no sense or feel of it. It was pathetic to watch." i Emery, whose reputation for rough stuff precedes him after a fight-filled junior career and a rookie season that included two Colgate 28 W. Illinois 27 Western Illinois (9-4). "I'm just dumbfounded and speechless. This is unbelievable." Jamaal Branch gave Colgate the lead on a I -yard touchdown run with 1:50 left in the fourth quarter, and Ryan Miller's last-minute interception ended Western Illinois' final threat as the Raiders defeated the Leathernecks in a snowy Division By SCOTT LAUBER Press Sun Bulletin BINGHAMTON It wasn't really 1973 again here Saturday night But with six former Broome Dusters standing at the blue line, Bob Moppert tickling the keys of his Hammond organ and Jim Matthews, father of Binghamton hockey, arriving in a 1972 Plymouth Duster, it sure felt like it.

The clock was turned back 30 years for Dusters Throwback Night, as forwards Randy MacGregor, Frank Hamill, Max Hansen and Pierre Laganiere, defenseman Neil Clairmont, goalie Roger Kosar and of course, Matthews, were reunited in a 20-minute pregame ceremony before the Dusters-descendant Binghamton Senators faced the Wilkes-BarreScranton Penguins. "To me and all of these players, this isn't just Hockeytown US it's Hockey Heaven USA," Matthews told the sold-out Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena, the full house a familiar sight back when he owned the Dusters. Matthews, 69, brought pro hockey here in 1973. And even though most Broome County residents knew little about the sport when Matthews arrived from his native Parry Sound, Ontario, the Dusters of the rough-and-tumble North American Hockey League averaged 4,270 fans to the Arena for seven seasons from 1973-80. Former Dusters radio announcer Roger Neel emceed the ceremony, in which each returning player was presented with a replica brown, gold and white Dusters sweater by a member of the Senators.

Matthews entered in the vintage automobile, seized the micro- phone and gave a short speech. Aside from acknowledging the return-. ing Dusters, all of whom reside in Broome County, Matthews also mentioned former Dusters goalie Ken Holland and tough guy Paul Stewart. Holland, now the general manager of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings, "has managed to give his team the highest budget in history," Matthews said. And Stewart, ironically, worked more than 1,000 NHL games as a referee afte in Matthews' words, "spendingYnost of his time here in the penalty box." "By seeing all this, I'm sensing that old feeling, and the more I sense il, the shorter the time seems (since the Dusters were here)," Matthews said later.

"The reason I got involved here was 1 wanted hockey to be deep in Binghamton, not like some of the places I've been. This is more than I ever expected." suspensions, was beaten twice after the Senators had sliced the margin to 2-1 on captain Chris Kelly's goal 2:03 into the third period. And when Penguins enforcer Reid Simpson decked Alexandre Giroux from behind with 2:55 left in regulation and Senators tough guy Brian McGraltan came to Giroux's aid, Emery skated three-quarters of the way up the ice and pum-melcd Penguins goalie Andy Chiodo, just barely a willing participant after fighting Emery once before in junior. "1 was frustrated with the game," said Emery, who received 1 7 minutes in penalties and a game misconduct. "We were all frustrated.

I like to fight as a way to get some of that out." Said Chiodo: "fhat guy and I go way back. I knew we were going to fight. He asked me in the first period. He's kind of a loose cannon. He was waiting for any chance, but I was happy to get the win (in the game)." To that end, Chiodo.

a close friend to former B-Sens star Jason Spezza.did his part. He stopped 20shotsand kept the Senators off the scoreboard in the first two periods when the Penguins built a 2-0 lead. The Senators, losers of five of their last six SEE B-SENS 3B (iaiiiull tv.s Service Colgate quarterback Chris Brown, bottom right, hangs onto the football after being tackled and falling in the snow during the second half of Colgate's 28-27 victory over Western Illinois during the NCAA l-AA quarterfinals Saturday in Hamilton. BU women fall to host in championship game of Arizona State tournament BU (4-2) struggled to kep the bigger, more athletic Sun Devils off the glass and surrendered 20 offensive rebounds. The Bearcats were outrebounded, 47-27.

Binghamton guard Rachel Laws led all scorers Laws scored a career-high 18 points and also had 11 rebounds as Binghamton rallied from a 15-point deficit. Power forward Leala Wegwerth's layup with 7:09 left started the Bearcats on Arizona St. 73 Bearcats From stall reports I There were no last-minute heroics on Saturday night. Arizona State made sure of that by blitzing the Binghamton University women's basketball team early in a 73-44 victory in the championship of the Arizona Sttc Wells Fargo Holiday Classic, The Bearcats vcre wiihin six points wilh 6:25 left in the lit st half, but the Sun Devils closed ihe half on a 15-5 run, KylanLoney hit twoof her three three-pointers during the spurt. the 24-year history of the tournament that ASU reached the championship game.

Junior Betsy Boardman led the Sun Devils into the final with a career-high 20 points against the Broncos. Boardman, a 6-foot-l guard who is averaging a team-high 13.5 points per game, was held to only seven points against BU but was still named the tournament's most valuable player. inside" BU men hope for victory at Lafayette. PAGE 6B Loney finished with a team-high 13 points, and was one of the two Sun Devils in double figures. Reserve guard YoVanna Rosenthal finished with 10 points for Arizona State (4-2).

which participated in last season's WNIT. The Sun Devils continued to pull away in the second half, as the Bearcats shot 22.7 percent from field. Arizona State seortd 18 of the first 22 points after the intermission and took a 61-31 load with about nine minutes remaining when ASU coach Charli Turner Thome began emptying her bench ley dribbled end to end and hit a jump shot to give BU the lead, 56-55, with six seconds remaining. Jen Blues made three of four free-throw attempts to complete the scoring and hand Montana State (5-1), another WNIT participant last season, its first loss. It was the third time this season the Bearcats came from behind to win in the final minute.

Wegwcrth finished with 12points for the Bearcats on Friday night. Arizona State advanced to Saturday's championship after beating Western Michigan, 75-66, on Friday night. It is the 23rd time in with 14 points in the loss, a trailed 54- but she was the onl Bearcat 52 with 48 seconds remain-; to score more than seven points Laws didii'i match her performance of Friday when she led BU to its fourth consecutive victory, 59-55 over Montana State in the tournament's first round. Laws rrii'a layup wit!) 15 sccqnclsv left t(i pull BU Mori-; tana Stale's Jaimey Tanner missed the second of her two free throws, Bearcats point guard Kate Town- i 0.